Manage Hyper-V in a workgroup remotely

Managing Hyper-V remotely in a workgroup can be challenging to configure. This is still the case for Windows Server 2016. For a testing environment I needed to remotely manage Windows Server 2016 core server with the Hyper-V role enabled from Windows 10 with the Hyper-V manager. I used the following manual configuration:

• Client with Hyper-V Manager (Windows 10). This client is called win10-01
• Server with Windows Server 2016 core version with the Hyper-V role enabled. The server is called hv-02
• Both systems are in the same workgroup called “workgroup”
• Both systems have the same username and password.

Configuration on the Windows Server 2016  server:

• Enable Remote Management

Configure-SMRemoting.exe -Enable

• Open firewall for  Remote Computer Management

Set-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup 'Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)' -Enabled true -PassThru
Set-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup 'Remote Event Log Management' -Enabled true -PassThru

• Open firewall for ping (ICMPv4)

Set-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName “File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request – ICMPv4-In)” -Enabled True -PassThru

• Enable Remote Desktop and allow remote connections

cscript.exe c:\Windows\System32\SCregEdit.wsf /AR 0

• Enable Remote disk management

Set-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup 'Remote Volume Management' -Enabled true -PassThru

Configuration on the Windows 10 client:

• Create a host file with IP address and hostname of the server. Make sure you can ping the hostname

• Make sure that the network type is part of a private network before executing the WINRM command

• Enable Remote Management

winrm quickconfig

• For Managing remote systems

winrm set winrm/config/client @{TrustedHosts="Name of the Server"}

• Enable remote disk Management (add this command on both systems) firewall rule

Set-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup 'Remote Volume Management' -Enabled true -PassThru

• Open c:\windows\system32\dcomcnfg.exe and allow ‘anonymous logon’ for local and remote access.

After making this settings I was able to manage the Windows Server 2016 server with the following tools remotely:

• Hyper-V manager
• Computer Management
• Disk Management